Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous